Remote DevSecOps Engineer: AWS, Terraform & Secure CI/CD

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote contract

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for a remote contract in the United States. The role focuses on managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, and partnering with InfoSec to deploy SAST/DAST/CSPM tools. Strong scripting in Python or Node.js and experience with monitoring are essential.

The candidate will work across HIPAA-regulated production environments, leverage AI-assisted tooling, and participate in on-call rotations, with no sponsorship provided.

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS experience across VPC, EC2, ECS, IAM, S3, and SQS.
• Terraform expertise and IaC practices.
• Python or Node.js scripting proficiency.
• Understanding of VPC design and network security.
• Exposure to SAST, DAST, or CSPM tooling and to logging and monitoring systems.
• Applicants must be located in the United States with eligible work authorization (no sponsorship).

Responsibilities

• Maintain AWS infrastructure as code using Terraform with modular, reusable patterns across VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, IAM, S3, and SQS in HIPAA-regulated production.
• Partner with InfoSec to run and tune security scanning tools such as Semgrep, Checkov, and Lacework, integrating them into delivery pipelines.
• Build automation in Python or Node.js to reduce manual toil and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Implement self-scaling and self-healing configurations, and strengthen CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor infrastructure with Prometheus, Grafana, and the LGTM stack; participate in on-call rotations and blameless post-mortems.
• Leverage AI-augmented engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude) to author and review infrastructure.

Skills

AWS experience

Python scripting

Node.js scripting

VPC design & security

CI/CD familiarity

On-call / incident response

Tools

Terraform

Semgrep

Checkov

Lacework

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Copilot

Claude

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

Mercor is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer for a remote contract in the United States. The role focuses on managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, implementing secure CI/CD pipelines, and partnering with InfoSec to deploy SAST/DAST/CSPM tools. Strong scripting in Python or Node.js and experience with monitoring are essential.

The candidate will work across HIPAA-regulated production environments, leverage AI-assisted tooling, and participate in on-call rotations, with no sponsorship provided.